Students 'Spring' Into Action to Aid Local Nonprofits
Published 03.12.2018
– Photos by Tia G. La, pre-physician assistant student
A work detail beautifies an already-appealing area of the library ...
... lending hands (and using heads) in civic service.
Business management major Tamaka Carter, of Williamsport, dusts library shelves.
Not unlike the Wright Brothers, whose airborne adventures took off from a bicycle repair shop, aviation maintenance technology student Samuel J. Pham fixes bikes during a service assignment. Pham, of Camp Hill, was among students helping the American Rescue Workers.
Jake C. Forelli (left), an engineering design technology student from Damascus, and resident Steve Sykes assemble lamps to be sold at the American Rescue Workers Thrift Store.
Sammie L. Davis, Samuel J. Pham and Michael V. Saylor, of Gettysburg, talk with Jon Hagan over lunch.
... at the nonprofit organization's ReStore on Rose Street, where do-it-yourselfers can purchase furniture and home-improvement materials below retail.
Student volunteers assist Habitat for Humanity ...
Breaking bread and sharing stories at Leighton Place
Volunteers help sort and shelve at the Salvation Army Food Pantry ...
... including Shelby E. Lynch, of Williamsport, an individual studies major maneuvering packaged food across the gymnasium floor.
Back on campus, time for debriefing and reflection in the fireside coziness of the Thompson Professional Development Center
Jonathan P. Bailey, an exercise science student from Philadelphia, helps clean up the children's vegetable garden at James V Brown Library.